Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
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Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#2Tl;dr: probably not. But we're not lawyers, and Google/Bing has enough to be confident that it isn't.
Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#3Whether or not it is "technically" copyright infringement, it is going to be impossible for a publisher to argue that in court considering they themselves have to publish an AMP-compatible version of their page in the first place, and caching is sold as a core feature of AMP (https://www.ampproject.org/learn/overview/).
Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#4But don’t you have to opt-in to AMP to begin with? Wouldn’t there be some sort of implicit permission in providing the AMP formatted content to begin with?
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#5Any communications channel transmitting data is committing copyright infringement. It’s not like the source bit is deleted once received at the destination. That’s how the internet works.
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#6I think we are just all over thinking this stuff. The purpose of the web is to share things with other people.
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#7Google also caches and serves everything else its robot finds, so if this was a problem it was already a problem long before AMP.
Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#8I wondered the same about text in search results. My guess is that web page authors would rather let it happen than lose out on the traffic.
Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#9I wondered the same about text in search results. My guess is that web page authors would rather let it happen than lose out on the traffic.
This is exactly the type of thing that “fair use” is supposed to cover. It gets blurrier though when you get into fuller media like images and video. Does a thumbnail count? How about a 10-second clip? How about a speech-to-text transcript?
Re: Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
#10I think we are just all over thinking this stuff. The purpose of the web is to share things with other people.
I prefer to share things with other people without a corporation injecting itself into the middle of that transaction for the purposes of surveillance and ad revenue.